Leighton, Lauren

Two Worlds, One Art: Literary Translation in Russia and America (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Item #24415
ISBN: 0875801609

Hardcover, 291 pp.

How can a translation successfully convey the scope of the original? In addressing this question, critics, theorists, and translators in the Russian- and English-speaking worlds have richly contributed to our under- standing of the process of translation. However eclectic their systems of translation may be in approach, method, assumption, or discipline, the goals of scholars and practitioners working in Russian and English are comparable.
In this pioneering study of Russian-and English-language literary translation, Lauren G. Leighton evaluates two radically different worlds-the organized, uniformly defined Soviet school and the free-ranging and often contradictory approaches by individual translators in America and demonstrates that the study of translation has converged on a worldwide basis in agreement about the art of translation. In-depth discussions of translation theory, criticism, and practice illuminate the methodology of both worlds, with emphasis given to the advances developed by the Soviet school, which until now has remained little known in the West.

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